Workers should start demanding salary increases in rands and not in percentages, says the SA Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) secretary in Gauteng.
"We must start talking our languages; percentages is English and tends to be confusing," said Chris Nkosi.
Nkosi, who was talking to striking Satawu members in Beyers Naudé Square in Johannesburg yesterday, dismissed reports that cash-in-transit workers had reached a deal with their employer.
"We do not negotiate at plant level. A negotiated agreement can only be reached at the bargaining chambers," he said.
Nkosi urged workers to intensify the strike until all petrol pumps ran dry, flights at OR Tambo International airport were grounded and auto teller machines were without cash.
Cosatu secretary in Gauteng Phutas Tseki slated police for refusing to allow workers to carry sticks during their marches.
He said the guns that police carried should also be regarded as traditional weapons.
"They say traditional weapons are dangerous, but their traditional weapons [guns] are also dangerous and they should put them away so that we can engage on an equal footing," he said.
Tseki said the scope of the commission of inquiry probing the Marikana massacre should be extended to include working conditions and salaries of all sectors.
"There is an injustice against workers in this country. Workers have not started enjoying benefits of freedom," he said.
Transport workers, whose strike enters a second week, will today march to the bargaining chamber to demand that their employers agree to the 12% increase.
The strike turned violent last week, particularly in Ekurhuleni, where workers burnt delivery trucks and stoned drivers who were not on strike.
Workers in Mpumalanga will today march to the provincial offices of the bargaining council to present a memorandum of demands.
Workers in KwaZulu-Natal will gather at various points in Pietermaritzburg, Durban and Richards Bay to picket while the strike committees will be briefing them about the next march in the city. Workers in Limpopo will march tomorrow.
'There is an injustice against workers in SA'
Workers should start demanding salary increases in rands and not in percentages, says the SA Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) secretary in Gauteng.
"We must start talking our languages; percentages is English and tends to be confusing," said Chris Nkosi.
Nkosi, who was talking to striking Satawu members in Beyers Naudé Square in Johannesburg yesterday, dismissed reports that cash-in-transit workers had reached a deal with their employer.
"We do not negotiate at plant level. A negotiated agreement can only be reached at the bargaining chambers," he said.
Nkosi urged workers to intensify the strike until all petrol pumps ran dry, flights at OR Tambo International airport were grounded and auto teller machines were without cash.
Cosatu secretary in Gauteng Phutas Tseki slated police for refusing to allow workers to carry sticks during their marches.
He said the guns that police carried should also be regarded as traditional weapons.
"They say traditional weapons are dangerous, but their traditional weapons [guns] are also dangerous and they should put them away so that we can engage on an equal footing," he said.
Tseki said the scope of the commission of inquiry probing the Marikana massacre should be extended to include working conditions and salaries of all sectors.
"There is an injustice against workers in this country. Workers have not started enjoying benefits of freedom," he said.
Transport workers, whose strike enters a second week, will today march to the bargaining chamber to demand that their employers agree to the 12% increase.
The strike turned violent last week, particularly in Ekurhuleni, where workers burnt delivery trucks and stoned drivers who were not on strike.
Workers in Mpumalanga will today march to the provincial offices of the bargaining council to present a memorandum of demands.
Workers in KwaZulu-Natal will gather at various points in Pietermaritzburg, Durban and Richards Bay to picket while the strike committees will be briefing them about the next march in the city. Workers in Limpopo will march tomorrow.
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